Saket Singh Senior Vice-President; Global Head of Cloud, Infrastructure and Security Services, Tech Mahindra Varun Sivaram Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Emerald AI Joey Stryker Vice-President, Partnerships, Domyn David Timis Global Communications and Public Affairs Manager, Generation: You Employed Jon Turnbull Senior Program Manager, Sustainability and Partnerships, Google Thomas W. Jackson Professor, Loughborough Business School, BridgeAI Programme, Loughborough University Lisa Wee Chief Sustainability Officer, AVEVA Group Calvin Woo Director, Digital Transformation, MYCentre4IR Carol Yan EMEA Head of Energy Transition and Renewables; General Manager, Energy and Utilities, Amazon Web Services Ruslan Zeynalzade AI Project Lead, Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution Azerbaijan Sincere appreciation is also extended to the following industry partners who provided critical cross-industry insights that informed the final draft: Gyanesh Chaudhary Chairman and Managing Director, Vikram Solar Kelsi Doran Global Head, Sustainability Strategy, Cisco Matthew Fitzpatrick Chief Executive Officer, Invisible Technologies Tej Gidda Vice President and Global Leader, Future Energy, GHD Group Jumana Al Hashal Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Volt Air Technologies Ben Hertz-Shargel Global Head, Grid Edge, Wood Mackenzie Deng Honghao Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder, Butlr Technologies Sam Hsu Board Member, Fastenal CompanyLuke Hu Ke Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Electroder Kathleen Lacey Senior Managing Director, The TCW Group Andrew McLaughlin Chief Operating Officer, SandboxAQ Ben Montalbano Technical Director, ESG, Schellman Compliance Adib Nasle Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, XENDEE Corporation Remi Paccou Director, Sustainability Research, Schneider Electric James Pennington Global Director for Sustainability Services, Lenovo Group Jeffery Preece Director, R&D, Electric Power Research Institute Sreedhar Sistu Vice-President, Artificial Intelligence Offers, Schneider Electric Jean Paul Skeete Associate Professor, Digital Supply Chains and Operations Management, Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University Lauren Smart Chair, Sumatran Orangutan Society Jonathan Sultoon Head, Markets, Transitions and Scenarios, P&R, Wood Mackenzie Joseph Vellone Chief Executive Officer, ChargeScape Eric Zie Chief Research Officer, Charsfield Research & Advisory Production Rose Chilvers Designer, Studio Miko Laurence Denmark Creative Director, Studio Miko Will Liley Editor, Studio Miko Sincere appreciation is extended to Salesforce and Lovelytics, whose partnership supported the development of the tableau visualizations that inform this report and the dashboard tool. From Paradox to Progress: A Net-Positive AI Energy Framework 35

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